Tuesday I had a nice meal at Barjola, Spanish Tapas bar.  As usual the grilled sardines were delicious.

Wednesday, I decided to try a ‘popular place’, so chose The Filling Station.  An American diner like place, decked out in 30s and 40s British motoring memorabilia.  Serves burgers, Tex Mex and steaks.  Chose a steak which I ordered rare, but alas it came in as medium to well done.  Charming Brazilian waitress though, who made all the right noises when I complained.  Shall not be eating there again.

The street next to the hotel was blocked off tonight.  They were making a scene from a new Rebus episode to be show on TV.  The scene was outside Bannermans. A music pub on the same street as Whistle Binkies.  A man walks up the street from Cow Gate, and argues with another man who appears out of Bannermans.  The first man shoots the second, and then rushes up the street.

All this was taken under large sprinklers simulating a wet Edinburgh night.  There must have been 40 people on the shoot, lots controlling the traffic in cowgate, every time they did a shoot, the traffic was stopped.  I was able to watch from 10 metres away, and able to see the scene in the monitor.